BDD Job Trends in the South West

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring BDD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 143 218
Rank change year-on-year -58 +75 -13
Permanent jobs citing BDD 4 14 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.055% 0.53% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.59% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 56
10th Percentile - £44,700 £41,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,625 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +26.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile - £96,750 £76,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -17.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

BDD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,076 2,386 7,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.27% 89.87% 84.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,374 1,528 5,556
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £28,667
25th Percentile £36,000 £37,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,600 £50,993
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +3.15% -2.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,025 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

BDD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BDD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

BDD job vacancy trend in the South West

BDD
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BDD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BDD

BDD
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BDD within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire -22 3 - - 2
Wiltshire - 1 £57,500 -
BDD
England

BDD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Atlassian